
To start off with, about two years ago, and incidentally the same time I stopped posting here, we moved out of my grandma's house and into a new house in town. Buddy has a nice big fenced-in yard, a deck to sleep under as he refuses to use the dog house on the porch for whatever reason (he even dragged a big dog blanket under the porch to sleep with-smart boy!), a nice garage for us to do tricks in if the weather's bad, and a very nice downstairs with an open floor plan so he can move in circles around the house. The only complaint I think he could make is the wood floors; he looked like Bambi on ice for a long time! We live at the top of a hill in a quiet housing development, so walks are nice. We also have forest and fields further down the hill/ridgeline with lots of blackberries in the summer.
It's close enough to walk to school, although this year I'm now driving as I'm 17. Last year was nice walking to school, but never back from school, as the daily hill-climb is quite a beast, especially with a loaded back-pack. This year I'm first-chair flutist in the school band, so I get to lead the flutes in sectionals. Jazz band starts this week, so that's great too. This year is also a trip year in my band, where we go to Florida for a week to participate in a band competition, go to Orlando Studio Resort, watch cool things like the Blue Man Group, and have a barbeque on the beach, so that's going to be super exciting

My grandma is doing better as well. She had a lot of health problems about 2 years ago, but they've stabilized, and mainly back and leg pain is what has been ailing her now, and the doctors have been doing a needle injection thing on her that should help with the pain and make it possible for her to walk better soon. My sister and I still visit her regularly and are on her school bus route, so we visit her often.
I'm also doing Running Start, which is a program in which I attend college classes my junior and senior year, enabling me to graduate high school with an associate's degree and transfer to a four-year college. I'm doing the Associates of Arts degree, and plan to pursue a career in animation and multi-media arts. I was on the fence for a long time about whether or not I wanted to pursue a career in animal behavior or the arts as my primary career, as they are quite different categories. Three factors ultimately had the most influence: the first is that animal behavior colleges don't really exist in my state, where as high ranking digital art schools such as Digipen and the technology hotspots of Microsoft and Nintendo among others do exist in Washington State and are well established. The second is that whenever I see a cool or cute animal, my first instinct is always to create its likeness or take qualities that I like about it and put it into my art, so I figured that was my heart calling me to art. The third was that I figured I have a long life ahead of me, and I could always become a certified dog trainer or something of the sort farther into the future. I don't have to be just an artist my entire life; 70-90 years is along time to learn stuff!
If you want to see my art, check me out at http://ewebster123.deviantart.com/ : I update it sporadically on a somewhat monthly basis lol. It's time consuming to post all of my stuff on there as I have to photograph it or scan every page, so I only put what I have the motivation for on there



So that's the scoop on me, what I've been doing, how Buddy is, and just about every exciting thing I can think of that I've done lately. I have to say, now that I've written on here and looked around on the forums again, I suddenly realized how much I liked this community and missed it. Glad to be back
